Pictures of aliens from my novel

You may have noticed the picture of a book in my sidebar. I wrote that book. It is actually a very long novel that I have broken down into four parts. The first part is now available in many electronic formats and in paperback. If you click on the picture of the book in the sidebar, it will take you to the paperback version. This book, which took me four years to write is both humorous and exciting. It is also full of aliens.

These are just some pictures I did of what I imagine these aliens to look like. I have never met them myself. That is the other me from the other dimension, the one who really wrote the story, even though I take credit for it. So these may not be exactly what these beings look like. But I had fun doing these, and I hope you enjoy them.

That is a Xxo. Humans also call them the Giant Broccoli. They are over twelve feet tall.

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That is a Bat. Humans also call them Trexes (or a Trex, in singular form) which is just a clever way to say T-Rex as one word because they do look a little like a T-Rex crossed with a bat. But don’t worry, they are only two feet tall.

That is Mr. Toad. He is a Brain-Friend to a Slug. He is only one and a half feet tall, but he is smarter than you might think.

These are two of the empathic Qualm.

And that is a Wasp Whip. They cause a little trouble.

That is a fleet of ships of some alien race. My daughter’s boyfriend did that ship on the back cover of the book. I just cut and pasted a bunch of them together.

Oh man… I love that picture. That is me with a real model of a Wasp Whip, made by a good blogger friend in England. He took the model out for a pint of beer in a pub…

How awesome is that? I cut the picture out in Photoshop to use in the picture with me.

And that is just me with the same alien, taken from the painting I did of him. I used this picture as part of my shameless marketing campaign.

Oh yeah… alien rock band…

That is a character from book three, Her name is Fawnya. And I did a few versions of her…

You know, just to play with some ideas for what color(s) she might be…

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150 Responses to Pictures of aliens from my novel

Art, I know you’ve mentioned Adobe Photoshop a few times. Is that the digital drawing program you utilize?

I’m still trying to get the artwork done for my debut novel. I suppose I could do it myself, but I’m not the best artist. And I really don’t want to use stock photos or art either. I’d like to get someone with more drawing experience to do it, but I haven’t been able to find anyone yet. I figure I’ll just try to do it myself and see what happens.

I use Photoshop for just about everything. It is really a photo manipulation program, but you can use it to draw, or fix drawings. Go back and look at some posts I did about my two children’s books. I did drawings, and sketches, and a few watercolor paintings, but I cleaned them up in Photoshop.

I don’t really want to download a royalty-free stock image or photo just for the mere sake of using it. That almost feels like a lazy and/or last-ditch effort. I would only download something to use as a base for the image I ultimately want to create.

I put out a proposal on a Facebook book cover design group, but there were no takers. I also listed a proposal on a separate web site that helps independent authors get things organized, such as editing. I’ve already paid a professional book editor to scour through it, which she did. But I had wanted to submit the cover art as well to whatever publisher I decide to use. I figured it’d be best to pay for as many features as I could upfront.

In looking at the proposals, I get the feeling I’m being too specific, even though I mentioned that I wouldn’t mind if the artist let their creativity run with it. Those specifics were just a base outline. Oh well…I’ll see what I can get done!

If you had all the details, about how much would you charge? I definitely don’t expect any artist to work for pennies or for free! I don’t care for that “starving artist” mantra or working for “exposure.”

If you want, email me at JLADeLaGarza@gmail.com with “The Silent Fountain Cover Art” in the subject line. ‘The Silent Fountain’ is the title of my book, a paranormal romance.

How about if you email me at brownemonkey@gmail.com and just give me a rough idea of what kind of artwork we are talking about, or a rough sketch, or whatever. I would just end up sending you a bunch of questions about that anyway.

I did a picture of my aliens in a rock band. The Qualm can feel the thoughts of other species. But they never quite react to them correctly. The hero end up using them as lie detectors and… some other stuff.

Oh, god, don’t say “squirrels.” My neighbor thinks she’s feeding them but the crows are scooping up the damned shelled peanuts, dropping them in my birdbath, and letting them fester and rot there until they’re good and soft., which they love.

I walk outside each morning to find a putrid pond of slimy ooze where there should be happy birds enjoying their morning ablutions. Imagine mixing peanut butter with sock sweat and urine and you’d about have it.

Today’s the day. I’m marching over there and telling her to stop it. I’ll say store bought peanuts give squirrels stomach cancer. She’s elderly and has no internet. I win.

pmao- Enjoyed this a lot. And look forward to readin more posts.
Will definitely check out yer books as they (from brief perusal) seem right up my alley.
Thanks fer stoppin by my mad blog,
Oh and Alien Rock Band are they available on i-tunes?

Now i am curious about this novel. Must check this out but if there are images it would be nice to have a the book, not an ebook. By the way, I had such a time chuckling (laughing out loud a few times too) reading through your comments. I usually don’t stop by for the comments.

They are hilarious (ooops) had to have spell check there…hehe; but I don’t always agree with all spell checks cos we have our expressions and Canadian English is not American English (not completely); So the book has no pictures, you say? I was going to get it for my grandson..hmmm, well, I’ll try to download it on my Kobo then.

It is written in sort of the same style, although that is an oversimplification. Mostly it is an old West saloon on an alien space station run by an old guy who grew up in the middle of nowhere and likes that much better.

I just noticed that you are hiding your smile behind your hand in that picture. There is a female human character in my book that does that. I have no idea why I threw that detail in when I was writing it. Her name is Candybar Venezuela.

Sounds autobiographical. That means written about the author just in case. After perusing this blog, I hold no assumptions not in evidence as to the author’s literary knowledge and skills. I’ll try to keep future posts more simpler. What do you mean, “Who?” I say simpler is a word. That’s who!.

That’s a lot of fibre… But I will bring a large block of cheese and make sure their demise is both flavorful and nutritious. I’m not too scared of their warlike prowess, cause I’m Canadian you know eh. Plus it’s not like they’re cauliflower or anything.

Clearly, sir, you have not met a beaver. At least a flaming one. They only eat moose. Mounds and mounds of yummy greasy moose meat, big steaks slathered with sauces made of maple syrup and whale blubber. For dessert, they consume hockey pucks. It’s what makes them so nimble.

And I will have you know that I have lived amidst beavers for my whole life… okay, people who were not here for the WordPress revolution and don’t know about our flaming beaver flag think I am a pervert, but they are mostly wrong!

What is it about you that draws Canucks to this sight. Thank God the subset Newfies haven’t found us. I think you should look into it and have it surgically removed. At least he’s not as recalcitrant and obstreperous as hiddinsight. He knows his place and stays there. She keeps trying to overthrow us and usurp our authority as the rightful heirs to the world. Right Pinky?

Always use protection!

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